Hedda Hassel Mørch is a philosopher and post-doc at the
University of Oslo, previously at The Center for Mind, Brain, and
Consciousness at New York University. Dr Mørch’s research focuses
on panpsychism, neutral monism and liberal conceptions of
physicalism. More specifically, how such views can respond to
problems in philosophy of mind and metaphysics, such as the hard
problem of consciousness (namely, how does soggy grey matter give
rise to technicolour experience), the problem of mental causation
(how can the mind interact the world), and the metaphysics of
causation (what does it really mean for one event to ‘cause’
another).

In this episode, we’re going to be discussing these topics with
Hedda, but focus more specifically, on her views on consciousness
and Integrated Information Theory. In Hedda’s own words:

"The nature of consciousness seems to be unique among
scientific puzzles. Not only do neuroscientists have no fundamental
explanation for how it arises from physical states of the brain, we
are not even sure whether we ever will."

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Contents

Part I. Integrated Information Theory.

Part II. Further Analysis
and Discussion.

About the Podcast

A weekly 'informal and informative' philosophy podcast inspiring and supporting students, teachers, academics and free-thinkers worldwide. All episodes are available at www.thepanpsycast.com.